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Historic sites in Florida

29 Florida dossiers sit on ground the record itself recognizes — registered, marked or preserved sites carrying a second file under the plaque. The history is the strong suit here: what the marker says, what the sources confirm and what the legend added afterward. Claims are reported, not endorsed.

29 dossiers6 counties covered62% open to visitorsSt. Augustine Lighthouse — deepest file
Also filed historic site:California49New York36Pennsylvania34Alaska25Michigan18Texas18Arizona18U.S. Virgin Islands15
Other Florida shelves:standing files39demolished files4abandoned places3
Lighthouse
High confidence

St. Augustine Lighthouse

St. Augustine, Florida

The museum presents lighthouse ghost stories and investigation experiences.

4 claims · 3 legends→
Sculpture Garden
Medium

Coral Castle

Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin single-handedly quarried and moved 1,100 tons of oolite—how is still argued.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
Medium

Tolomato Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

18th-century Minorcan cemetery—site of the 1877 death of a young boy playing in a vault.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Lighthouse
Medium

Pensacola Lighthouse

Pensacola, Florida

The 1859 Gulf light with a keeper’s bloodstains legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

Jupiter, Florida

The 1860 inlet light—Civil War darkening and a keeper’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Indian Key Historic State Park

Islamorada, Florida

Island ruins preserve an early nineteenth-century salvage settlement.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Island
Medium

Egmont Key

St. Petersburg, Florida

The US Army detained Seminole people here before forced removal in 1858.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort Former Prison
Medium

Fort Jefferson

Key West, Florida

Unfinished island fort used as a Civil War military prison.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic House Museum
Medium

Stranahan House

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1901 trading post—Fort Lauderdale’s oldest building and its most haunted.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Garden Tower
Medium

Bok Tower Gardens

Lake Wales, Florida

1929 carillon tower on Iron Mountain—Edward Bok’s birdsong sanctuary.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic Mansion
Medium

Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling)

Sarasota, Florida

John Ringling’s Venetian-Gothic palace on Sarasota Bay.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Matanzas

St. Augustine, Florida

1742 coquina fort guarding the inlet where 245 Frenchmen were massacred.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Clinch

Fernandina Beach, Florida

1847 Third System fort guarding the Amelia River—never finished, never tested.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Lightner Museum

St. Augustine, Florida

Flagler’s 1888 Alcazar Hotel turned museum—haunted by a woman in white.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Cemetery
Medium

Huguenot Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

1821 yellow-fever cemetery at the city gate.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Estate
Medium

Vizcaya

Miami, Florida

James Deering’s 1916 Italianate palace on Biscayne Bay.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Versace Mansion (Casa Casuarina)

Miami Beach, Florida

The Ocean Drive mansion where Gianni Versace was shot on his steps.

1 claim→
Ghost Town
Medium

Brewster

Brewster, Florida

Former phosphate company town with surviving industrial remnants.

2 facts→
Plantation Ruins
Low

Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park

Flagler Beach, Florida

Preserved ruins of an East Florida plantation.

1 fact→
Industrial Ruins
Medium

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park

Homosassa, Florida

Preserved sugar-mill ruins documenting plantation industry and enslaved labor.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Ellaville

Ellaville, Florida

Former sawmill settlement near the Withlacoochee and Suwannee confluence.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Medium

Villa City

Groveland, Florida

Former citrus settlement diminished after the devastating 1894–1895 freezes.

1 fact→
Submerged Archaeological Site
Medium

Fort Jefferson submerged post cemetery and quarantine hospital site

Key West, Florida

Former island cemetery and quarantine-hospital site identified through underwater archaeology.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Medium

Rattlesnake (former settlement)

Tampa, Florida

Absorbed settlement that grew around a rattlesnake-meat business.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Low

Ethel

Sorrento, Florida

Former community within present Rock Springs Run State Reserve.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

St. Francis (former town)

Florida

Former St. Johns River settlement reached by an official forest trail.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Leno (former mill town)

High Springs, Florida

Former Santa Fe River mill settlement now within O'Leno State Park.

1 fact→
Cemetery
Medium

St. Joseph Cemetery

Port St. Joe, Florida

Cemetery preserving memory of the 1841 yellow-fever epidemic.

1 fact→
Ruins
Unverified

Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park

Florida

Protected historic blockhouse ruins.

0 facts→

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Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive